Sleep No More is AMAZING — Page 3

I'm so relieved I didn't oversell it. Cuz, you know, I'm a tad enthusiastic. I'm psyched you dug it, sabrelady. I see it Saturday night! (For the FIRST time in NY, I'm dure.)

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In Boston, if somebody didn't show up, the people in the cancellation line would have been happy to pay twice the face value. Not that they were asked to. But if 300 people paid for the tickets and two didn't show up, it would seem there wouldn't be any incentive to sell the spaces at a discount. Things could be different here if the run extends, I suppose.

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Just saw that the show has extended into 1st wk of May PLUS has added a 4th entrance time -think this means it ends around 11pm now. This show is rapidly approaching legendary status.

Once you get in the space, you'll see how this has to be an open ended run.

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If they're not inviting the press in until the 6th, perhaps they're waiting for their word of mouth. It's a risky proposition because Brantley really did not get it when he came up to see it in Boston. Shakira, however, did.

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I have been wondering that, too. I have to assume having a familiarity with the space would diminish the terror-thrill of it a bit, but there are also going to be lots of rooms you don't see if you go just once, so hopefully you will find new spaces on repeat visits. The number of people who go over and over again and the number of times they go makes me think you don't lose much, but I would also love to hear about that from repeat-visitors. I'm still really hoping for an extension so I can go again.

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Updated On: 4/7/11 at 01:54 PM

I was very careful and spent enough time to find each room and back room. Was wondering if action takes place in each of these locals. I did follow the storyline on the 'Street' floor. It did cover many of the rooms.
The fight choreography is freaking amazing in the pool/card/bar room!

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Fingers are crossed for you Emcee! I would think that theres a good chance of it running throughout the summer. Why wouldn't they? Summer is huge for business.

I've been to Sleep No More 7 times so far(tomorrow night is 8, Monday is 9, next Saturday is 10) and although it is a different experience from the first time, I don't think the space itself has lost it's impact on me. It doesn't blow me away like it did the first time, but I still marvel over it enter the Manderlay. My focus has changed from discovering rooms to following the characters, although, I still do find places and certain things(like the "Narnia" door! you wont find it on your own tho. you get taken there ;] ) that i haven't seen before.

Has anyone else on the board seen Hecate lip-sync to "Is That All There Is?" because i just saw that for the first time last time i went and i was SO freaked out after it. It's haunting the way she does it.

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I went for the first time on Monday and am going again on Tuesday at 7:20.

On my first time, I had a lot of neat experiences but missed most of the show itself. I spent most of the time exploring the space, opening drawers, reading letters and spent nearly 45 minutes on a personal journey with one of the nurses.

When I first entered the space, I saw the Macbeths at the bathtub but then quickly discovered a long hallway of rooms. I wound up alone with a tailor, or barricaded the windows and doors and performed some sort of ceremony on me. Ashes, Holy Water and a necklace. After he threw me back into the play, I was marked for the rest of the night. Many characters came to me when they saw the necklace. They'd touch it and lead me somewhere. But it was almost all 1-on-1's so I'm afraid I missed most of the story.

Some other things I saw:

-Hecate singing "Is That All There Is?". Extraordinary. She gave me a ring that she discovered in her meal.

-A nurse took me on a long journey. She became ill and coughed up a nail into the palm of my hand.

-Lady MacDuff sat with me on the couch.

-and, of course.... the witch orgy, for lack of a better description.

Any recommendations on how to really enhance the storytelling? I so enjoyed it but would like to see the story unfold. I'm wondering if getting to the front of the elevator and being the first thrown out might help. I felt that I missed "the beginning" by being the last off the elevator.

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I went for the 3rd time (1st time in NY) this past Saturday and still loved it! I feel like I covered the whole space and spent even more time exploring in rooms than i did in Boston. While I wasn't seeking them out, scenes just kept erupting around me. I'd seen many of them before but there seemed to be even more characters this time so I definitely saw some things I'd never seen before. I had a couple of "close" encounters though nothing compares to the intimate experience I had the first time I went. A friend saw "Is that All there Is?" and she (also a 3-timer) said it was the most intense thing she'd experienced so far (though she hasn't had much luck with the more intimate encounters.) I also did discover the "Narnia" door quite by accident! I kept trying to get through a locked door and suddenly it opened and people kept streaming through it. Once they stopped coming at me, I went through and found myself in. . .well, you'll just have to find it for yourself!

The layout for NY was much more disorienting than Boston but that made it even better!

@theatertrash I think the best way to watch the story unfold would be just to follow some of the main characters. Maybe start out with Macbeth or Lady Macbeth and follow one of them around for a whole cycle. They both have really incredible tracks and i've followed them around numerous times, especially the lady. Following Lady Macduff is good (i havent followed Macduff for a full cycle yet) but she has fewer encounters with other characters. The witches do a lot together and they go back and forth to a lot of different characters. Just try to split up the time you spend with each character. The nurses are less involved in the Macbeth story, as far as i know.

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Thanks!

As for the Narnia door... you may have just screwed my second trip. Now I want to spend the entire time searching for it. Can you give us a clue?

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I think what we're calling it is clue enough!